Khristna And His Flute

Be still, my heart, and listen,

For sweet and yet acute

I hear the wistful music

Of Khristna and his flute.

Across the cool, blue evenings,

Throughout the burning days,

Persuasive and beguiling,

He plays and plays and plays.

Ah, none may hear such music

Resistant to its charms,

The household work grows weary,

And cold the husband’s arms.

I must arise and follow,

To seek, in vain pursuit,

The blueness and the distance,

The sweetness of that flute!

In linked and liquid sequence,

The plaintive notes dissolve

Divinely tender secrets

That none but he can solve.

Oh, Khristna, I am coming,

I can no more delay.

“My heart has flown to join thee,”

How can my footsteps stay?

Beloved, such thoughts have peril;

The wish is in my mind

That I had fired the jungle,

And left no leaf behind,–

Burnt all bamboos to ashes,

And made their music mute,–

To save thee from the magic

Of Khristna and his flute.

Poetry Monster – Home

A few random poems:

External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

Talking Writing Monster’s Page –

Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Atalanta’s Race by William Morris by William Morris
• A Good Knight In Prison by William Morris by William Morris
• A Death Song by William Morris by William Morris
• We embraced and talked about rains by Vinko Kalinic by Poetry In English
• Twins by Vinko Kalinić by Poetry In English
• To a friend by Vinko Kalinić by Poetry In English
• Those seven days by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa by Poetry In English
• The face wanted by Vinko Kalinić by Poetry In English
• The Boy by Vinko Kalinić by Poetry In English
• Summer We Called Home by Vinita Agrawal by Poetry In English
• Story of a Drunk by Violet Uram by Poetry In English
• Sometimes by Vinko Kalinić by Poetry In English
• See, how I love you by Vinko Kalinić by Poetry In English
• Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić by Poetry In English
• Respect her by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa by Poetry In English
• Requiem for Two by Vinko Kalinić by Poetry In English
• Raw Silk by Vinita Agrawal by Poetry In English
• Raise the head, child by Vinko Kalinić by Poetry In English
• Pure call of the wilderness by Vinko Kalinic by Poetry In English
• Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram by Poetry In English

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

Parallel Translations of Poetry

Poems by Author and Category

The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works